[bookport] Re: Need help in solving problems with reading recording for the blind books for grad school classes
- From: "Nancy Stevens" <nstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:03:20 -0600
I have found that the pin and RFB and D key work great with the book port.
The Double Talk speech is a bit difficult for me to listen to for long
periods, but having the navigation features available is worth it. The plus
with the FRBD books is that you do here the actual human voice reading the
text.
You only need the authorization cD once. Then I just have it stored in case
I need it in the future.
Good luck with your music course.
Nancy
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On Behalf Of Jay Pellis
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:57 AM
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Subject: [bookport] Need help in solving problems with reading recording for
the blind books for grad school classes
Hello everyone-
I am having some major problems in reading recording for the blind talking
books on cd. I'm a music composition grad student and i desperately need to
start reading a book for my introduction to audio class. After waiting a
few weeks, I finally received the book on cd and I also ordered the FS
reader software from freedom scientific and the user authorization cd also
from rfb. I thought to purchase the FS reader since you can obtain the pc
and pacmate versions both at once and i figured it would work with jaws
pretty well. I installed the software and called rfb in order to authorize
it to play the rfb books. That went ok. I opened up the book and typed in
my pin number and the book appeared. Jaws navigation worked fine going
between the tree view list of chapters as well as the text window. However
there was no text in the text window, just what appeared to be chapter names
and page numbers. Also, the audio of the book would not play. Now i opened
up the jaws6 basic training and the text appeared fine for that book but the
audio still wouldn't play, also would not play in the fs reader demo
included with jaws6. I tested other demos of daisy book reader software and
they worked fine with the jaws book. I called FS tech support and we
couldn't figure out what to do. The only thing i can think of is to upgrade
to service pack 2 of windows xp but i don't think that would fix the problem
either. I always make sure i have the latest versions of everything such as
windows media player 10 and direct x 9.0c. So I plan on calling FS later
today to see if I may get a refund on the software since it doesn't appear
to work on my system. I also didn't install the pacmate program either
since I was going to wait on that to support rfbd books if it ever will that
is.
I'm not sure what I should do now and I was wondering if anyone had any
opinions? I was talking to my parents about it and they said they'd help me
purchase a new program or piece of hardware to use to read the books. I was
looking at book wizard reader by APH and it seems ok, just can't seem to
read the text of the jaws book with either jaws itself or one of the MS sapi
voices in the text view with the arrow keys or playback keys. Other then
that, it seems like a good program. However i was thinking with software, i
could probably display the text and audio at the same time but with
hardware, i won't be tied down to my pc.
I was perhaps thinking of purchasing bookwizard reader and the bookport and
getting that authorized for rfbd. That device also plays other file formats
which I think would be nice to have, especially audible files since the
audible player won't install on my pacmate. Or do i perhaps buy a program
and one of the portable cd players from the recording for the blind? I don't
know what any of them are like since there don't appear to be demos. I'd
like something that's easy to learn so i won't have to struggle with it and
i could read the book.
I'd like to get this problem solved as quickly as possible so I can
participate fully in class reading. If I can't get a refund on the FS
reader software, I guess i'll just keep it and if i ever get a laptop, maybe
it will work on that. Unfortunately, i don't think rfb would give me a
refund on the fs reader authorization cd.
Thanks for any help or opinions, it would be greatly appreciated. Feel free
to contact me at any of the messenger screen names below, skype and Yahoo
messenger don't work on my universities network but aim and msn do.
Sincerely
Jay Pellis
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